Quotes about Personal Growth

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we're living.

If you only do what you can do, you can never be more than what you are now.

We had better rate our important parts-our thoughts, feelings, and actions-to see how they helped or hindered us. But-damn it!-we didn't have to rate our self, our being, our essence. Our self or personhood was too complex to be given a global rating. We could say, for practical reasons, it was good-meaning it helped us to live and enjoy. Or we could say that it just didn't have to be rated at all. Use our self but not rate it!

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.